Hi My apologies for the delayed reply. I wanted to write something more than "my first thought is", but I have not investigated further.
On Thu, 27 Aug 2026 at 19:48, Roland Clobus <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not really happy with the apparent need to duplicate this dependency at > this level, but at the moment we have some desktop environments that are not > installed properly, already in forky (which bothers me more). I have noticed that some of the desktop packages, e..g. task-gnome-desktop and task-cinnamon-desktop, have a single Recommends on a meta package. Would this solve the problem for task-xfce-desktop? In src:tasksel, you could Recommends: xfce-meta (or so) and in xfce-meta you could have Depends and Recommends as you prefer. If certain packages really do need to be made Depends in src:tasksel, then please feel free to revert my changes as you see fit. However, I do suggest trying to have as few Depends as possible. As long as tasksel is considered a key package, we are effectively blind to RC bugs in those Depends, and if tasksel is not considered key, then tasksel will be under constant threat of removal due to RC bugs in those Depends. Regards Graham
